Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 3: Enna – Etna 150 km

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Could end up seeing the three muppets Froome, Thomas and Bernal starting a GT together after all.

No dominant teams here, good stuff, ripe ground for a randomer totally fluking one from a breakaway.
Be surprised if Ineos win the Vuelta with the year they are having.
 
Oct 15, 2017
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A very entertaining GC so far... Almeida is going to be a hard nut to be cracked...

It will be interesting to follow him. He is a young rider and this is his first GT. A top 10 in the end would be really good. More is a lot to ask for.

Lots of potential for the future.
 
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After years of watching the Tour this is the first Giro I am watching... and boy have I already been blown away. That stage was way more entertaining than almost any Tour stage I've seen.
That's usually because of a much weaker field. And I'm not talking about the GC contenders, but the domestiques. You don't have a strong team to control the pace on the climbs and you can get total anarchy from the beginning. Especially after Astana lost Lopez and Vlasov.

Imagine the Tour Jumbo team on today's climb. They finish with 5 riders in the top10.
 
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Could end up seeing the three muppets Froome, Thomas and Bernal starting a GT together after all.

No dominant teams here, good stuff, ripe ground for a randomer totally fluking one from a breakaway.

With no dominant team able to control and with all those classic type stages we will see a lot of attacks, big fights for breakaways, and GC fighting and working not only last 3 km. Hopefully.
And probably another very surprising winner.
 
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Hopefully a lot of the immediate stages will be more crucial with no super-team or rider in the race.

The stages 6, 10, 12, 13 and 16 don't need to be reduced peloton sprints if thought of as hilly classics.
 
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It's almost as if he was only a random fan and not an expert.

What is an expert?

I certainly know way more about the recent history of professional cycling and the current pro riders than many people who are labelled experts by their employers.

Yet I'm just a random fan.
 
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Some people from TDF top ten are probably very pissed off today because of their choice.
I wonder what could be the chances of big TOM or even WVA here.
 
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So do we think Yates is definitely done for the podium?

3 mins is a horror show but if he just had a really bad day (with MS riding it seems unlikely there was something they knew about in advance ) at a really bad time (pace being pushed early with G off the back) the others will likely let him go if he tries an early punt and you'd not be shocked if he found a minute or more back on a gift if his legs are actually closer to TA level and not this .

Admittedly it's super hard to see but weirder things have happened
 
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So do we think Yates is definitely done for the podium?

3 mins is a horror show but if he just had a really bad day (with MS riding it seems unlikely there was something they knew about in advance ) at a really bad time (pace being pushed early with G off the back) the others will likely let him go if he tries an early punt and you'd not be shocked if he found a minute or more back on a gift if his legs are actually closer to TA level and not this .

Admittedly it's super hard to see but weirder things have happened

I don't think that 3 minutes is enough for him to be allowed to go from the group of favs.
 
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So do we think Yates is definitely done for the podium?

3 mins is a horror show but if he just had a really bad day (with MS riding it seems unlikely there was something they knew about in advance ) at a really bad time (pace being pushed early with G off the back) the others will likely let him go if he tries an early punt and you'd not be shocked if he found a minute or more back on a gift if his legs are actually closer to TA level and not this .

Admittedly it's super hard to see but weirder things have happened
Given the rate that the contenders are thinning out he could still win the MR :p
Maybe he's doing a reverse of 2018, this was his bad day and watch him dominate the race from now
 
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